For some time, I have been wanting to let you know how things have been going since I began giving him French maritime pine polyphenol, but I just didn't have enough time to do it.
But then I reflected on the fact that it is thanks to French maritime pine polyphenol that he is so well, and I decided to write you.
He is a mixed breed, and I don't know how old he is. (He seems to be pretty old, but...)
I don't know his age because it was in December of last year that I took him in, having found him curled up in a snowy rice field with his legs and tail frozen.
I waited until morning and took him to the town office, but when they said they were going to euthanize him that very day, I felt sorry for him and ended up taking him home.
Once I was taking care of him, I realized that he had some dementia due to being old and also had filaria; and his legs and lower back were very weak.
Well, I came to understand many things of that nature, and realized that he must have been abandoned.
When he suddenly began coughing and collapsed, that's when I first knew he had filaria, so I took him to the vet and got medicine for him.
But then his blood pressure dropped too low and he became semiconscious and couldn't stand up. The vet also told me that judging from his terrible heart murmur, he probably only had a few days to live.
So when the heart medicine was stopped, he gradually regained consciousness and made a surprising comeback. But his heart couldn't be expected to get better, and he was constantly coughing and passing out.
Around that time, I heard of French maritime pine polyphenol and decided to try it on him.
He had other problems besides heart disease. He had a tumor in his mouth and every two or three days, it would bleed. He had a tumor on his neck, too, and it would break open and then form a scab, and that happened over and over.
However, after he had taken French maritime pine polyphenol for a month, there was an improvement in his condition that has lasted to this day. His mouth has not bled even once, and I realized one day that the tumor on his neck had disappeared. On top of that, the vet said that his heart murmur had gotten a lot better.
However, I have noticed more often lately that his neck has seizures, twisting horribly, and he suddenly falls down right in the middle of walking around.
I thought his heart must have become very weak, so I took him to the vet, not having gone there for some time, and had him examined.
It turned out that his heart condition had stabilized and the murmur wasn't too bad, and the vet thought that the cause of his problems was probably some abnormality in his brain.
I have given up worrying about that, since he is an old dog and nothing can be done about it, but I consider that it is thanks to Pinfenon that he has been able to keep living up till now.
He appears to have a hypersensitive constitution, and he stumbles around and becomes unable to walk, not only when he takes heart medicine but also even when he takes a medication to suppress the seizures.
This means that even though there are a lot of good medicines that could help ease his condition, there aren't any that I can give him; so I think that all I can do is to keep relying on French maritime pine polyphenol.
He generally has a great appetite, but I was worried because this morning he didn't want to eat anything. But in the evening he began to eat again, and I was relieved for the time being.
He can't go to the bathroom without someone holding him up, or else he falls on his bottom, so one of us has to be at home all the time. We cannot all go out together as a family anymore now, but when I look at this dog's cute face, I want him to keep living longer.
I feel sad that because of his dementia, he doesn't cuddle up to people and he shows no interest in anything; and besides that, he has some sort of health problem every day, so I am constantly worried. But I am determined to try to help him get through the summer.
I'm sending his picture, so please have a look at his cute face.
I would appreciate your continued assistance.